[GOAL] Re: A suggestion: A voiding overpriced journals

[Ted Bergstrom]

Preston McAfee and I maintain a website http://www.journalprices.com/
that attempts to do something along these lines.  We classify journals 
in each field as
"good values" , "intermediate values" and "bad values" by comparing an 
index based on  price per article and price per citation with the median 
value of this index for non-profit journals in the same field.    We 
encourage scholars to consider these indexes when deciding where to 
submit papers and whether to offer free refereeing services to a journal.

We have recently posted an updated version with 2011 prices and 2010 
citation and article counts.


On 6/20/12 9:29 AM, R. Stephen Berry wrote:
> Would it be useful to have a listing available to let working scientists know which publications they should avoid using,
> based on field and, more important, on the publishing policies of the publisher?
>
> 	Steve Berry